CROSSWORD

EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

INSTRUMENTAL ACROSS

1 Executes flawlessly 5 Play chords, perhaps

10 Lion’s share

14 Fox series that has spawned numerous albums 15 Penobscot’s state 16 “Black Beauty” novelist Sewell 17 Hearing aid of yore 19 Fantasy league datum 20 Richard’s running mate

21 1777 battle site 23 Joined with stitches 26 Net surfer’s stop 27 Device with a cassette drive, perhaps 32 Gnawing pests 35 Genre with confessional lyrics 36 Many a LASIK candidate 37 Incinerator remnant 38 Kimono-clad entertainers 41 Load of bunk 42 Pizzeria order 44 Pine-___ (cleaner brand)

45 Knock to the canvas

46 One with a subsidiary role 50 Amazon basin land 51 Pacific battle site of June-July 1944 54 Tends to a tot 58 Fillies, as adults 60 Front-office figure, for short

61 You can’t live without it 64 Fitzgerald, the “Queen of Jazz” 65 Buoy the spirits of 66 Kansan dog of moviedom 67 Craps table surface 68 Don’t allow to lapse 69 Stash in the hold Answers:

DOWN

1 Approaches one’s golden years 2 Handily shows approval? 3 Coincidental, in an unsettling way 4 Fixed fee

5 Bush 43 library sch. 6 Highlander’s topper 7 Criticizes savagely 8 “Something’s wrong” feeling 9 Like liters and meters 10 Result of practice, hopefully

11 Not clueless about 12 Negotiations hang-up 13 “Toodles!” 18 Tomato in Italian cookery 22 Quantum theory particles 24 Masked dueler’s blade 25 Moore of “Empire” 28 Martini’s partner in wines

29 Big name in pineapples 30 “Ben-Hur” or “Gladiator” 31 Smell something fierce

32 Word before market or media 33 Speck on an ocean map

34 In the latest style

38 Every child inherits them 39 Bricklayers’ troughs

40 Alan of “The Longest Ride” 43 Monkey-see, monkey-do type

45 Leaves the station

47 Golf range club 48 Doomed to fail 49 Car for a 60-Across, often 52 Shop jargon 53 “Peachy keen!” 54 Common sauerbraten meat 55 Greased auto part 56 Bout-starting sound 57 Musial in Cooperstown 59 School cancellation cause 62 Enjoyed takeout 63 “Ben-Hur” novelist Wallace